by dmcff » 10 Mar 2016, 12:40
Thanks, BB, for the link. I am definitely going to read more about Benenden - yes, I'm in Kent - and may well join the scheme, depending on how things go with my fissure.
When I tried to go private, I found that I couldn't - the surgeon I had chosen to consult at a local private hospital decided to ship me off to Medway Maritime and have the same procedures done on the NHS! Which happened at once, that same day, amazingly, though I also had a similar experience to the one you describe: I never found out the details of my sigmoidoscopy, or the result of my CAT scan, and only got the information via my GP that nothing cancerous was found, and that there were some healed fissures. While I was grateful to receive immediate and free treatment, I was also slightly disconcerted by the informal way the whole thing was handled. And later, when I happened to meet the same surgeon during a stay in Medway Maritime, he told me that he didn't know the solution to my pain problem, and suggested that I use analgesic suppositories. I'm still not sure what to make of that.
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2014 Anal fissure
2015 CAT, EUA, sigmoidoscopy, 2 MRI
2016 Pain severe then moderate to low
2017 Moderate pain
2018 Physical therapy, pain management
2019-20 Living with it
2021 Still AF
2022 Therapy, meditation
2023 Pneumonia
2024 CT scan, MRI, ERCP